One of India’s most sacred rivers, the Yamuna in New Delhi, is covered with white toxic foam, with vast sections frothing as a result of pollutants discharged from industries around the city ...

A trainee with the Kerala Pollution Control Board fills a bottle from a bucket of Periyar River water in Eloor, Kerala state, India, Friday, March 3, 2023.

The Ganges river is one of the world’s most sacred waterways—and one of its most polluted. To restore it, India is undertaking one of the biggest engineering programs in the history of sanitation.

The Ganges, one of India's largest rivers and one of the most important rivers in the world, is no stranger to pollution either.

BANGALORE, India (RNS) — This city's early 1990s tech boom outstripped its waste management plans, leaving its Vrishabhavathi River choked with industrial waste.

The second report in a six-part series follows India's Ganges River south to Kanpur, where industrial pollution has tainted the water and sickened those living on its banks.

The Ganges river, holy to most Indians, flows from the western Himalayas down to the Bay of Bengal through crowded cities, industrial hubs and some of the most populated areas in the world.

These Photos Show How Pollution in India Is Killing Rivers Worshipped by Hindus REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui India is one of the world's major polluters, and its rivers are dying.

Eloor, a small island on the Periyar River in southern India, used to have rich farmland and be teeming with fish.